As Facebook announced the limited launch of Facebook for Work, the company’s attempt to pivot into the cloud-based enterprise collaboration space, competitors were quick to criticise the social media giant for its lack of experience in the enterprise.

Cloud-based collaboration provider Huddle has raised $51m in its latest round of funding led by Zouk Capital, which the company said would be used to double down on developing analytics and mobile capabilities for its flagship offering.

Box has acquired MedXT, a pioneer in cloud-based medical image viewing, sharing and collaboration, for an undisclosed sum. According to Box founder and chief executive officer Aaron Levie the acquisition will help the company make strong inroads into the healthcare sector.

Although the number of enterprise-focused players entering the cloud storage marketing seems to be growing each month, recently published research suggests consumer offerings still account for the bulk of the solutions used in businesses today. Of employees using file sync and share tools at work, 89 per cent are using consumer products and just 9 per cent of those using these services claim to be satisfied with the commercial, enterprise-focused offerings given to them by their corporate IT department, according to Ovum.

As of Monday, June 30th, employees in the UK with over 26 week’s service are eligible to request flexible working hours. This legislation, which previously only applied to working parents, now allows more employees to work weekends, evenings, or even set up their office from home. But what does this change mean for businesses, and is your technology up to scratch to support this new legislation?

General Electric said Thursday that the company has selected Box as its cloud content collaboration platform, planning to deploy the service across its global organisation which includes 300,000 employees spread across 170 countries.

File collaboration and storage provider Workshare announced Monday that the company has appointed former CEO of RBS Insurance Annett Court to the board as a non-executive director in a bid to provide new strategic direction for the company’s global growth.

T-Systems, the IT service provider arm of German telco Deutsche Telekom announced this week that the company plans to integrate all of its cloud services onto a new unified, fully-redundant cloud infrastructure platform. The company says its standardisation efforts will help increase the automation and flexibility of its services, and allow enterprises to implement more robust data residency and data privacy policies.

UK telco BT announced a partnership with networking giant Cisco Wednesday that will see the two companies jointly deploy a cloud-based voice and video collaboration platform called One Cloud Cisco. The companies say the new platform will help position them to take advantage of recent trends in flexible working.

Are SMBs failing a new generation of mobile workers? A new study surveying over 1,500 SMB office workers across Europe suggests that while enterprise employees are driving the shift towards the mobile workplace, the cloud-based tools that could potentially enhance mobile productivity are still actively banned by IT departments. Peter Plested, director of European solutions at Sharp Europe says the results suggest vendors haven’t been able to effectively allay businesses’ (reasonable) concerns over the cost, security and complexity of these solutions.